LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Oil Tanker
JULY 27TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
Two steamers had been in collision in the morning, one an oil tanker which had caught fire. Ten of her crew lost their lives. The other twenty-four had been rescued by another steamer. At 8...
'The Signal Was Eventually Fired, and If Nothing Else, Provided Excitement for the Many Holidaymakers Now Lining the Cliff Top.'
'The signal was eventually fired, and if nothing else, provided excitement for the many holidaymakers now lining the cliff top.'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Coyde and Mechanic Harris of Torbay Who Received Awards from the Institution for the Service to the Northwind
Coxswain Coyde and Mechanic Harris of Torbay Who Received Awards From The Institution For The Service To The Northwind. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Aubrey Diggle, Pictured Left, Receiving a Letter of Appreciation from Peter Nicolson, Chairman of the RNLI, for Saving Two Surfers
Aubrey Diggle, pictured left, receiving a letter of appreciation from Peter Nicolson, Chairman of the RNLI, for saving two surfers. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GROOMSPORT, IRELAND.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded a new 32-feet 10-oared life-boat to this station, in place of a smaller one which was found i unsuitable for the locality. A transporting- I carriage has also been sent...
Category: Articles
Dr. Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., Glasgow
No one has given more notable, generous and successful help to the life-boat service in Scotland than Dr.
Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., of Glasgow, who died on llth March, at the age of seventy-seven. Dr. Gow was the hon- orary...
Category: Obituaries
A Cabin Cruiser
At 4.30 p.m. on 2ist August, 1966, it was noticed that a cabin cruiser was broaching to in broken water on the North Tail. The life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker proceeded at 4.45 in a moderate westerly breeze and a choppy sea. It was low water. A...
Donald Searle (1)
Seventeen saved from 75ft yacht aground in gale and 20ft breakersTwo Hayling Island lifeboatmen, Roderick James and Frank Dunster, have been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for their part in the rescue of 17 people from a 75ft yacht...
Healthspan
Good nutrition is the foundation of a long and healthy lifespan.
From the day we are born,good nutrition is vital in maintaining good health. It's one of the most important ways that each of us can help ourselves to a...
Category: Advertisement
A Record Collecting Box
LAST December the Institution received from Mr. F. 0. Brown, of Bedford Park, London, a cheque for £28 10s., the amount which he had collected during the year in his Life-boat box. At the same time, he said that owing to ill- health...
Category: Articles